Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo

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Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo
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Sounds to me like the right thing to do would be disqualify the winner and cancel the category entirely.

What's the point?

The artist proved that right now, AI art cannot compete.

If a horse wins an auto race, don’t give a prize to the #2 motorist.

That's not how sports work, even Motorsport has classes, often in the same race, e.g. of course LMP-3 or GT3 cannot compete with LMP-1, and the latter cannot compete with F1 (unless you're whatever madlads made the 919 Evo at Porsche), but it's still things people watch. Hell classic motorsport can be a ton of fun and there's rally classes that drive in 100hp cars that make my overweight nerd heart flutter just watching them

There have been years where a lower class is the overall winner in some endurance Motorsport races though. So your analogy is wrong. If a GT3 Porsche happens to be more efficient or if it’s a year with poor LMP teams, a lower class car can certainly win the overall victory.

There will still be class victories, but that’s separate from an overall.

Also classic car (historic racing) is totally awesome, the Goodwood Revival especially has done a really good job making racing exciting again. Their YouTube channel is really well done too.

There have been years where a lower class is the overall winner in some endurance Motorsport races though.

It's possible, but that's not the intention behind having multiple classes. No one gets into a slower car expecting to win by hoping that all the fast cars combust.

So your analogy is wrong

Not really, the exception proves the rule in this case.

Goodwood Revival

I'll check it out! Thanks

So, the photography competition that was won by an AI image shouldn't have disqualified the image?

But the ai art won...

Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo

And did you read the article?

Did you?

A photographer has been disqualified from a picture competition after his real photograph won in the AI image category.

Miles Astray entered a real, albeit surreal photo of a flamingo into the AI category of the 1839 Color Photography Awards which the judges not only placed third but it also won the People’s Vote Award.

It got third

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